On 2008-05-07 19:14, Rasmus Andersson wrote:
On 7 maj 2008, at 19.03, M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
Not really. The point of the PyNumber_* API is to work on numbers without actually caring or knowing the specific number types (Include/abstract.h). Yes I know, but I can't really see a big need for this kind of functionality in practice, but please, enlighten me! (maybe with a scenario)
Didn't I just give you a few ?
Either I'm unusually stupid today or I missed something -- where is the scenario (using this proposed functionality in real world)? (sorry)
You asked for example of using the PyNumber_* API. All of these can use strings as input for the processing chain:
work with numbers regardless of type, do the final conversion at the end
(you only care about the final type)
work with numbers, creating Python objects that can be passed to other Python mechanisms such as marshal
(you only care about the fact that you're dealing with a number, not the type)
parsing numeric data and preparing it for conversion to some other format, e.g. using PyString_Format()
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